With a 9mm handgun in his waistband, George Pickering, 59, said he went into his son’s room at Tomball Regional Medical Center’s intensive care unit on Jan. 10 and was informed that the life support keeping him alive could soon be removed. The tragic news set Pickering off. He pulled out his handgun and ordered everyone to get out of the room because, the dad explained to TheBlaze, it was his time to be with his son.

After four tense hours, Pickering surrendered to police peacefully, believing he had done enough to prove that his son should be kept alive. Prior to the incident, he reported being disturbed by hospital staff’s hasty discussions about harvesting his 27-year-old son’s organs. He said he did not have the medical power of attorney over his son.

An Alabama demise column detainee came to a supplication bargain Thursday that makes him the second detainee to escape capital punishment in the state in less than two weeks.

William Ziegler, 39, consented to confess to supporting and abetting in the killing of Russell Allen Baker, and a Mobile County judge issued him credit for the over 15 years he as of now has served in jail.

An appeals court ruled Tuesday that Wal-Mart investors don’t have a right to try to stop the company from selling rifles or any other product those shareholders may think is socially destructive.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the Arkansas-based retailer, reversing a district court ruling in November that would have let the company’s investors influence the store’s policy on high-capacity sporting-rifle sales.

This propaganda is part of these groups’ first ever six-figure ad campaign. SIX figures to get Kroger to stop allowing people to open carry in its stores. When Kroger did not respond to the ads the way the lobbies wanted Kroger to, the groups rallied outside Kroger corporate headquarters. They have also launched a website for people to enter grocery amounts spent at competitors to prove to Kroger that its pro-gun stance is losing money.

Let’s stop for a second and think about this rationally (in a way not driven by billionaires who use their money to buy millions in propaganda to disarm the population): how many stories come out in the news about mass shootings at a Kroger grocery store anyway? And because of lawful gun owners?

Ten Colombian troopers were killed by Farc revolts in southwestern Cauca region on Wednesday, the military said, notwithstanding a four-month-old one-sided truce proclaimed by the gathering in the midst of peace converses with the legislature.

President Barack Obama is endeavoring to produce a noteworthy agreement that will oblige a lot of trust between two long-lasting enemies who have been persuaded the other side is intent on crushing them. It will require fragile arrangements, including transactions over who gets the opportunity to arrange. To succeed, it will drive both sides to relinquish old, agreeable political develops in which every side characterized itself to some extent by making an adversary of the other.

The forms are used for people to register with New York State Police firearms that meet the state’s definition of military-style assault weapons. The deadline is April 15. Gun rights advocates gathered at the Saratoga-Wilton Elks Lodge 161 to burn the papers in a symbolic protest.

E.J. Stokes, leader of the Warren County chapter of New York Revolution, said he was participating because he believes in the U.S. Constitution.

“Once the Second (Amendment) falls, the rest will go with it. It’s an unconstitutional law, done in the middle of the night with no input from the public,” he said.

Yep. One concerned citizen did their Statist duty and informed officers that some man was wearing a costume in broad daylight on a Monday afternoon in America. Good job, Statist! For such valiant action, you have been awarded Statist of the Year 2014. Your autographed, framed Dick Cheney portrait should be arriving soon if it hasn't already.

The greeting in Panama comes amid a thaw negotiations between the US and Cuba.
The president of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, opened Friday night the Seventh Summit of the Americas before rulers and representatives of 35 countries of the continent.

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was perhaps the most aggressive, followed closely by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, as they both criticized Mr. Obama’s relationship with Israel and his reluctance to say “radical Islamic is terrorism.” Senator Marco Rubio called Mr. Obama “a weak president,” after declaring, “weakness is the enemy of peace.” Jeb Bush argued that the negotiations with Iran were a “bad deal” that was “leaving America exposed.”

Some went even further. Mike Huckabee spent a large part of his speech talking about his trips to Israel and recalling the horrors of the Holocaust, and Donald Trump said the Islamic State is controlling oil.

The news of Ms. Clinton’s announcement that she will run for president put her in the cross hairs as well.

In the plane of the Icelandic airline Icelandair, travelling on a flight from Reykjavik-Denver (Colorado, United States) is struck by lightning. According to the Denver Post, as a result, the nose of the Boeing-757 “was formed hole.

A senior American military commander warned that modern Russian army “is much more capable than were the armed forces of the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the Soviet army was larger, reports Fox News.

A senior American military commander warned that modern Russian army “is much more capable than were the armed forces of the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the Soviet army was larger, reports Fox News.

Since Washington has started military campaigns just for the sake of demonstrating its own power, the American army has lost the ability to win, says Vice.
After the victory over Nazi Germany a major military campaign ended for well-trained and armed United States army rather pitiable, writes American Journal of Vice.

Rick Bailey, 56, is a disabled retired software-systems engineer who has slowly accrued a collection of 28 firearms, with an estimated worth of about $25,000. The collection was seized after a neighbor claimed Bailey threatened to shoot him, an accusation Bailey calls “bullsh-t.”

The dispute between the neighbors started several months ago regarding dump trucks used in a landscaping business. Bailey said his neighbor would park two “large, smelly” dump trucks in the small cul-de-sac where they reside.

Eventually, Bailey filed a complaint with the city to remove the dump trucks and other work-related vehicles from the private residential area. Although initially the neighbor complied, Bailey said he would sometimes bring the dump trucks back on weekends when the city was closed, “just to irritate us.”

The Canadian mining McEwen Mining was the victim on Tuesday, a spectacular robbery at one of its mines in Mexico which criminals appropriated 7,000 ounces of gold worth $ 8.5 million, according to the company.

Ramón C. Estrada, 62, was out on parole less than three weeks after his death.

A Mexican inmate died last week in Utah, apparently of a heart attack related to kidney failure after not submitted for two consecutive days external technicians should give dialysis in prison, authorities said Tuesday.

Almost one in 10 Americans has a history of impulsive and angry behavior and ready access to guns, new research indicates.

The serious mental health issues that would legally prevent someone from purchasing a gun -- such as involuntary commitment to a psychiatric ward for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder -- only account for about 4 percent of U.S. gun violence, noted study author Jeffrey Swanson.

A police officer, accused on Tuesday of murder, shoot an African-American man in South Carolina.

A white police officer faces charges for murder once they broadcast a video which shows that the officer fired from behind an African-American man while trying to escape, said the Mayor of North Charleston, South Carolina.

A police officer, accused on Tuesday of murder, shoot an African-American man in South Carolina.

A white police officer faces charges for murder once they broadcast a video which shows that the officer fired from behind an African-American man while trying to escape, said the Mayor of North Charleston, South Carolina.

Central American immigrants are subjected to harassment in its passage through Mexico on their way to the United States.

In the past four years, the kidnapping of migrants of different nationalities in Mexico increased more than 100 percent, according to information from the attorney specializing in investigation of organized crime (Seido), as well as other areas of the Office of the Attorney General (PGR, Prosecutor’s office).

More than 30,000 cases of disappearances during the civil war have not been clarified in Guatemala.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) leads to compensate the victims of the internal armed conflict last action in Guatemala, Notimex said the Chief of the delegation of ICRC for Mexico, Central America and Cuba, Juan Pedro Schaerer.

Since Congressman Steve Israel first called for legislation that would ban 3-D printed guns, those plastic-printed firearms have evolved from a few simple components to a full one-shot pistol to rifles and multi-shot revolvers, with more advances on the horizon. Israel’s bill, meanwhile, has gone nowhere, leaving a widening gap between DIY weapons and the law.

Even if your knowledge of the Vietnam War comes exclusively from Hollywood films and Texan textbooks that only refer to it as "that one the good guys lost," you've probably heard about the Viet Cong. They were a bunch of jungle-fighting guerrilla warriors who killed American boys via night-time ambushes and terrifying traps. Well, that's one side of the story.

Here's another: #8. We Weren't All Communists; We Just Wanted Independence, or Revenge......

“It’s a different world! We have to act differently,” said Jerry Brown, Governor of California, to announce the first of water mandatory restrictions for the State, in the middle of a harsh drought on Wednesday.

Security features of the NSA fatally shot one of the suspects, while the second was seriously injured.

Authorities in Maryland identified as Kevin Fleming a man who was injured near one of the entrances of military complex where work premises of the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade, Maryland, where another man passed on ied.

US President Barack Obama pardoned sentences of 22 federal prisoners shortening their sentences for drug-related offenses.

According to reports from the White House, eight of the prisoners who are going to reduce his sentence were sentenced to life imprisonment, that because the defendants were prosecuted under a judgment old and obsolete.

California police reported Monday evening that the young Hispanic College Berkeley, missing since Saturday, was killed while walking on a highway in Los Angeles when hit by a car.

Eloi Vázquez died early Saturday on Interstate 10 near the University of Southern California, yet the coroner couldn't quickly recognize the body and the police had taken the investigation, a disappearance.

Popular director Gene Saks, who worked with the famous ashamed New York creator Neil Simon on Broadway and in the production of movies, has died at 93 years old years. The child of director Daniel said that Gene Saks passed on of pneumonia at his home in East Hampton, New York.

Barbara Lee is a standout amongst the most liberal individuals from Congress sounded horrendous cautioning of the results of neglecting to handle environmental change: it will make women prostitutes, she said.

American political columnist Paul Craig Roberts was of the opinion that the fanatical anti-Russian propaganda paramilitary Washington filled the front pages of major Western media is a real threat to the world. In the US, obviously crazy, political scientist, and is finally realized in France and Germany, where he is now doing their utmost to avoid war.

The United States supports the international coalition, which includes Sudan, the US State Department announced the state – sponsor of terrorism, indicating that the duality of Washington’s policy, says the American journalist Finnian Cunningham.

According to the famous American journalist Robert Parry, central military command has information about the crash of the Boeing 777 Malaysian in the Donets Basin, but is not going to disclose, as they contradict the official version of the US that the airliner was shot down by the militias.

According to the famous American journalist Robert Parry, central military command has information about the crash of the Boeing 777 Malaysian in the Donets Basin, but is not going to disclose, as they contradict the official version of the US that the airliner was shot down by the militias.

Edmonds Hasan was arrested by FBI agents in Chicago Midway International Airport.
A US soldier was arrested at Chicago airport while attempting to travel to join the ranks of the Islamic State (ISIS) with his cousin, who was planning attacks on military installations, said Thursday the Justice Department said in a statement.

President Barack Obama warned Congress that he will veto any budget that changes the Wall Street reform passed in 2010.

In his speech Thursday in Birmingham, Alabama, Obama also criticized the bill for the federal budget for fiscal year 2016 valued at 3.8 billion dollars approved on Wednesday the House of Representatives, considering that seeks "a setback" in financial reform in 2010 and specifically attacks the CFPB.

"If Republicans in Congress sent me a bill that pushes back the reform of Wall Street, the veto," he said.

Fewer people applied for weekly unemployment benefits last week, demonstrating that companies are still hiring staff despite signs of slower economic growth in early 2015.

The Labor Department reported Thursday that the submission of applications fell by 9,000 to settle at 282,000, and applied the seasonal adjustment. The decline suggests a slowdown in manufacturing, home construction and retail sales have not affected the labor market, a possible indication that economic growth will resume after a harsh winter.

Edmonds Hasan was arrested by FBI agents in Chicago Midway International Airport.

A US soldier was arrested at Chicago airport while attempting to travel to join the ranks of the Islamic State (ISIS) with his cousin, who was planning attacks on military installations, said Thursday the Justice Department said in a statement.

Hasan Edmonds, 22 and a member of the National Guard, was arrested by FBI agents on Wednesday at the Chicago Midway International Airport as he was boarding a flight to Egypt.

US is losing the information war Russia and radical Islamists. These findings are contained in a report on the activities of the Board of Governors on broadcasting in charge of such media as “Radio Liberty” and “Voice of America”. Members of the Board rejects accusations of poor management and assure that the problem of a lack of funding, which is more than ten times lower than the funds allocated to the promotion of Moscow.

Rio de Janeiro the Brazilian Federal Police today conducted an operation to dismantle a suspicious band millionaires have caused damage to public coffers in a department of the treasury.

Embezzlement proven by research amounted to 5,700 million reais ($ 1.780 billion), but police suspect damage to public funds can be raised to 19,000 million reais (about 6,000 million), according to an official statement.

The gang is suspected of manipulating favor of private interest’s processes of the Administrative Board of Tax Appeals (CARF), the Federal Revenue Department (Treasury) responsible for fining tax evaders.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) misinterpreted statistics on gun shooting in the country, which could be President Barack Obama's attempt to gain support for stricter gun control regulations, the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) told Sputnik on Wednesday.

At first the initiative requested that the names were protected for 90 days.
Civil rights advocates filed a petition with 2,400 signatures urging the Governor of Arizona, Doug Duceym to veto a bill that would allow up to 60 days hide the names of officers involved in deaths in developing their work.

More than two dozen demonstrators reached the outskirts of Ducey offices in Phoenix to reject the SB-1445 initiative, which will be submitted at any time Republican governor’s desk.

The found not guilty of murdering man Trayvon Martin said President treated him unfairly.
George Zimmerman said that a person in his situation can not feel guilty about surviving a confrontation like the one he had with Trayvon Martin, the 17 year old who shot and killed three years ago in Florida. He also criticized the reaction of President Barack Obama regarding this case.

Zimmerman said he would be guilty only if he thought he could have done something differently that would have saved the lives of both.

Ashraf Ghani thanked the United States for what they gave to his country “freedom and hope”

On Monday, March 23 at Camp David (Maryland), country residence of the President of the United States, talks were held between senior representatives of the US administration and the leaders of Afghanistan – President Ashraf Ghani and Prime Minister Abdullah Abdullah.

According to US officials, there is no evidence that the publication of the “Islamic state” names, addresses and photos of 100 US military in the murder of Islamists who are calling on their supporters in the United States, was the result of hacking databases.

Tremors were recorded in 01.51 local time on 33 km south-east of Putre. The earthquake lies at a depth of 128.1 kilometers. An earthquake measuring 6.1 occurred in the north of Chile, said on Monday the US Geological Survey.

... It is clear, then, that all Americans have the right to defend themselves. Guns are the most reliable means of defense, and give citizens the ability to protect themselves from violent attackers and fight back without a chance of getting hurt. All anti-gun laws do is take away the protection of citizens by disarming them, putting them in danger. As President Barack Obama said, "No single law, no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society." Therefore, society is safer when people carry guns because it gives citizens the ability to protect themselves from violent attacks.

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Clearly the Common Core demonization of the Second Amendment has failed in our public schools. Which I see as a good thing!

US should make public the pictures showing abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, as determined by a judge after a long legal battle over whether to allow the world to see possibly disturbing images of how the military treated their prisoners.

The verdict of the US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein given two months to the government, which spent a decade fighting to prevent publication, to decide whether to appeal before they can spread the images. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU, for its acronym in English) has long been trying to make public in order that the government take responsibility.

A man brandishing a machete and a can of tear gas entered the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans on Friday night and attacked three agents, which was shot by an officer of the Administration Transportation Safety (TSA) as reported by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.

The incident caused panic at the airport, which closed for 20 minutes as well as a large police presence.

B. Todd Jones, the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, announced he is stepping down Friday after nearly four years on the job. His announcement comes following a controversial ATF proposal to ban certain bullets that could pierce bullet-proof vests and be fired from an AR-15 rifle. But public outcry and Congressional pressure led the agency to abandon its efforts.

Second Amendment supporters use the term constitutional carry when referring to the right to carry handguns without the requirement of a government permit. The phrase reflects the view that the Constitution is the law of the land, therefore states do not have the right to pass laws that violate the natural rights protected by the Constitution, and in this case the Second Amendment.

Currently, five states require no permit whatsoever for concealed carry of a handgun in public. The five states, which will be referred to as the Fab Five henceforth in this article, are Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Wyoming and Vermont. Vermont has never had a requirement in place necessitating a permit to carry a concealed handgun. The other four states have gone permit-free in the last twelve years. Arkansas was the most recent state to make the move in 2013, preceded by Wyoming in 2011, Arizona in 2010, and Alaska in 2003.

The dangerous threat to the Second Amendment that he's been warning you about has made its way to Hawaii!

In 2012 you may remember that 7 members of the Hawaii Legislature went on record--demanding a Constitutional Convention to repeal the Second Amendment.

This year at least four separate pieces of legislation in Honolulu aim to open up the U.S. Constitution -- and ALL of your cherished rights and freedoms it contains -- for the political class to whack away at.

A leftist news outlet claims that Second Amendment activists are supporting rape by advocating concealed carry on college campuses.

On Tuesday, Raw Story said the push to legalize campus carry by pro-gun activists is “sheer assh*lery on many levels” and is also a “subtle form of rape denialism,” whatever that means.

“…These laws are functionally more pro-rape than anti-rape,” Raw Story’s Amanda Marcotte wrote. “After all, most campus rapists haven’t been convicted — duh — so it’s perfectly legal for them to own guns.”

“And, unlike victims, they are planning for the rapes to happen and so can plan to have access to a gun when they corner their victims.”

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I think allowing women to carry conceal and the potential rapists KNOWING that some of their victims might be armed (without knowing which ones) will probably result in a decrease of rapes, and the history of crime rates in conceal carry areas supports this. But for the gun-grabbers, and twisted logic to support their agenda is acceptable, even if some of it gets as silly as the global warming people insisting that a hotter Earth is why we are getting record-setting winters!

This was my neighbor.He was a well liked man who had very little. A couple of beloved dogs a truck and his home. The Bank,The Wasco County Sheriff's department and the Oregon State Police took it all from him.
I don't believe much of the story that has come out. They did a 24 hour autopsy and declared him a suicide because he could have come out. Bull! They had him surrounded with machine guns a robot and an armored vehicle.They shot the house full of incendiary teargas. That's when the place went up. They say he shot one of his dogs but one dog was found near him him unshot.The other dog was found near the front door where the police tried to enter. They haven't produced a gun either.The whole thing stinks!

As soon as the bank told Dee Ashley last Friday that she had to give an eviction notice Monday to a man she’d seen declining for months, she had a gut feeling it would end badly.

Caroline Kennedy, US Ambassador to Japan.
Authorities in Washington are taken "seriously" threats received by the US ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, so that governments both the US and the Japanese are already investigating the matter, according to the State Department.
"We take seriously any threat to US diplomats," said State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, adding that his government will give its diplomatic staff "every possible step to protect".

As shipped, Ghost Gunner manufactures any mil-spec AR-15 lower receiver to completion. With simple tools and point and click software, the machine automatically finds and aligns to your 80% lower to get to work. No prior CNC knowledge or experience is requried to manufacture from design files. Legally manufacture unserialized AR-15's in the comfort and privacy of your home.

The terrorist massacre in a museum in Tunisia left 21 dead and dozens injured tourists.

On Wednesday, the capital of Tunisia was the scene of a deadly terrorist attack that killed 21 people. Among the victims are two Colombians. Eight Mexicans and four Argentines, who were also present at the time of the shooting, managed to escape unharmed.

They set up a fake gun store, then guilt people out of buying personal defense weapons by making them think they are holding the actual weapons used in these horrible crimes. Don't agree with the tactic at all. But the comments on youtube are disabled so lets discuss :)

Migrant agricultural workers in a field of California.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held on Tuesday the second day of the 154 session and receive reports, among others, on the situation of the right to freedom of expression in Ecuador, forced migration and persecution of community advocates LGBTI in Central America, and the situation of economic, social and cultural rights in Venezuela.

Also receive reports on Chile, Peru, Paraguay and Haiti. The period ends on 20 March. On Monday, the Commission received complaints about the “serious impact” on human rights in the draft canal in Nicaragua, lack of guarantees during trials in military courts Guantanamo Bay (Cuba) and job discrimination against immigrant’s undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Denucia woman who suffered abuse by ICE agents who tried to arrest undocumented family.
A family of immigrants in Homestead, South Florida, denounced abuses by federal agents of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE, for its acronym in English) for a national five-day raid resulted in the arrest of more than 2 thousand undocumented.

The government ensures that all detainees had criminal records and were placed in deportation proceedings.

The officer came to the inspection booth accompanied by a female passenger.

A police officer in Los Angeles was arrested and could face charges of smuggling, after officers from the US border with Mexico arrested him and shall find a person hiding in his vehicle.

Officials of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection reported that the incident occurred last Saturday at around 18:30 when the officer Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) came to the inspection booth input port accompanied by a female passenger.

McDonald’s workers in 19 cities have filed complaints against the company suffered burns fat because jumping from the frying pans, lack of protective equipment for them and other risks of work, according to labor organizers.

Complaints are the latest step in a campaign for a wage increase to remunerate workers $ 15 per hour and allow unionization of employees in the branch of fast food, which is pressuring McDonald’s to go to the negotiating table.

President Obama is under fire from The Washington Post’s fact-checker over a series of recent far-fetched gun claims, including suggesting the country’s homicide rate is higher than that of other industrialized nations “by like a mile.”

The comments, made during a stop in South Carolina last week, earned the president three out of four "Pinocchios" -- the fact-checker's scale for measuring inaccuracy.

Angel Gonzalez met with the Consul Carlos Martín Jiménez Macías.
Angel Gonzalez took him 20 years of his life to prove his innocence for a crime he did not commit. He waited for science was on his side.

During an interview for Time 21 program, González explained that from the beginning there were irregularities in his case because he did not have a translator.